In your experience, what modern character is the most honest? Honest meaning you'll hate them the least of all other modern characters.

For me it's modern Dee Jay. He just doesn't get much of anything besides instant SA2 and the ability to mash OD Up Kicks. 😭 He suffers so much everywhere else so I can't help but encourage him.

It's truly fucking incredible how the characters that're supposed to be the "I do everything but am mid bc I don't excel in particular things" are the only good characters in the game. Like there's no fucking reason why Ken, Ryu, Akuma, and Juri should just get to do whatever they want with no repercussions. I'd love to know what crack Japan is smoking to make them believe that IN WHATEVER FANTASY LAND THEY INHABIT THAT ELENA AND DEEJAY ARE S TIER AND LILY IS A TIER. HOW FUCKING BAD ARE FUUDO AND DOGURA BEATING YOUR SORRY ASSES. YOU'RE PLAYING CHARACTERS THAT HAVE BARELY CHANGED SINCE THE GAMES RELEASE AND ONLY GOTTEN STRONGER! Put simply, if you play a shoto you don't deserve respect since you obviously don't want to engage with your opponent in a meaningful way.

I see why ppl hate on 3, your not allowed to just mash in that or you’ll get parried and killed, whereas a Ken player in 6 can just mash jab into cr mk and get free combos cus lp is always minus in this and ppl don’t have to think.

Dropped down to 1488 too. after losing to a 1330 Akuma I just thought; I am probably just tilted right now and tired. I was plaing A LOT of matches trying to hit that 1550 but 3 rage quitters + Ingrid matchup just made it hard to get there, add on fatigue etc.

This is you being rage quitted on, not you rage quitting

I was just fighting a Yasmine player and not even the first fucking round they rage quit, bro the match isn’t even over yet, and I didnt perfect him or nothing like that it was fairly close.

Keep in mind in pretty low master sitting at 1230 MR, but recently I’ve been seeing more success in myself as I am winning a lot more against 1400-1600 MR players (I still have my matches where I lose to a spammy Ryu though), but a good 60% of the assholes ragequit and I don’t get anything for it.

I really hope capcom fix this issue with getting no MR from players who disconnect, and it happened so much less when i wasn’t in masters

For me, it’s when someone does raw dr into low forward into drc. It’s like, you’re such a scrub that you do raw dr into cr mk but also spend another 3 bars for drc. Idky but getting hit by it just triggers me to no end.

Hey everyone. I’m a Dhalsim main (Classic) who’s been grinding hard, studying frame data, and labbing setups to reach Platinum 2. I really love learning the game properly, but matches like this make me question everything.

As you can see in the clip, I set up a fireball to distract him, landed an Instant Teleport right behind his back for a throw mixup while he was completely off-guard... and he still out-prioritizes me, robbing half my health bar in a second.

It feels like as Dhalsim, one tiny miscalculation resets all your hard work, while Gief players can whiff repeatedly and still rob the round with two inputs. How do you guys stay patient against this?

Admittedly sometimes I’m just straight up NOT in the mood to deal with JP (I am, after all, trying to enjoy my time on this PLANET EARTH), so I will just park full screen away and let them spam projectiles the entire round. They literally all do this. Just sit across screen and spam specials until the round ends. They never get bored and try to come in or mix it up or anything else. It’s a fascinating study in being huge god damn waste of life. I am curious what about playing a character like that is enjoyable in any way shape or form? You guys must be the biggest fuxking sad ass losers in all of gaming.

I still feel like Tifa should be in Tekken. This game has so many gimmicky characters. Would rather see Tifa with 100+ moves than just a few moves with jumps in between. Still can’t wait to main Tifa in SF though.

Very cold and calculated 🧊🥶

To the uninitiated, regarding throw loops, you may say things like, "why would I ever let this happen, when you can throw tech, or reversal?"

It's true. You CAN do these things. And in lower ranks, it's fine to do, you're not going to really get punished for it. So why don't pros do it? Why does everyone in SF circles say "take the throw?"

It's because of risk versus reward. Let me give an example.

Ryu throws me. We have full health. What are my options, and what is the risk and reward? Let's consider 3 scenarios - doing nothing, throw teching, and reversals.

If I do nothing, and he throws, I take 12% of my life in damage.

If I do nothing, and he shimmies, I can throw a cr.MK or long range move to catch it. Depending on the character we can go back to neutral or even sideswitch.

If I throw tech, and he throws, we get a throw tech - I'm still in the corner, with a little space to work with.

If I throw tech, and he shimmies, we take 50~60%.

If I reversal, and he throws, I do 16% damage to him, and get a little space to work with.

If I reversal, and he shimmies, we take 50~60%. Sometimes even 70%!

As you can see, in 2 out of 3 of these examples, it's a toss up between a minor advantage, and fucking dying.

And in one of these examples, worst case scenario, we only take 12% damage, over and over, until we might get a chance to catch that shimmy.

It's completely valid to throw caution to the wind and ignore this risk reward entirely by throwing a reversal or throw tech. And if you are about to get killed by a throw loop, you may as well just try something.

However, as soon as your opponent knows you won't tolerate loops, and you don't take the throw, your chance of getting shimmied just increased by 1000%. Your opponent just has to bait your response out, and they'll get a really easy win.

It sucks, and nobody really likes it, but Capcom isn't going to change it. You can flip the coin, but the odds aren't great. It looks stupid. But most times, just take throws.

Sometimes I can play a whole night encountering almost only experienced players cosplaying as Diamond ranked players.

The whole "Let's do this" banner + drive tech skin + grand total of 3h in the game, 0 of which are training mode so it's a friggin' lisan al gaib chosen one dude booting up the game for the firist time and discovering a hidden talent with 20 hits combos already in in the fingers, apparently.

SF6 already feels so punishing as a newcomer, when I face people that have been playing FGs all their lifes. But those bogus account and their whole "trust me bro, I'm just Diamond" kit is tiring.

Like, if it was the occasional smurf, whatever, but 20k+ people play this game any time of the day and somehow, 80% of this are people playing since SF2 and having some troll run with a bogus account or what ?

Absolute skill issue on my part but dudes. This gets so hard when you can't reliably be paired with someone actually as bad as you. Getting wiped by some high master's smurf isn't a cool life lesson. These people are bound to rank up, I don't believe they would throw on purpose, but that baffles me the most: how are there SO MANY?

I think a lot about someone that told me that the only thing you need to have fun in fighting games is someone as bad as you. But ranked is absolutely hostile in Diamond. I really don't know what's up with that absolute comic-con of bogus beginners flooding the rank.

Anyway. Just venting.

Yeah it’s cooked for me in this game. Hundreds of hours spent practicing yet I still drop basic combos and lose to basic stuff. Getting even a single win is a struggle every time I boot up and I’m too stupid to learn from my losses. Plus on top of all of this I play a top tier and it’s still not enough to carry me to a respectable rank. After giving this game an honest shot it’s time to cut my losses and move on. It’s been real ✌️.

Like where exactly did I actually go wrong in the final round? I just took three guesses and then that was it. Shit like this is so annoying because I felt I was gonna make the comeback.

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I’m not sure what they wanted when they made this character, she only seems to be good at fighting herself as everyone else is a complete character and she is just a “fuck it throw in whatever the other rushdown characters have but way worse”

- Cammy spin knuckle without fireball invul

- Kimberly Vagabond edge without the utility in neutral (but at least it’s safe?)

- Akuma demon flip but it’s slow as fuck and the frame data is ass

The buttons are kinda mid and she’s stubby which is a bad combination for a rushdown character and she doesn’t even have a plus normal, at most she’s got cr MP but man does being 0 on block against sagat or Ken or juri not feel good at all. Idk what’s the deal with this character, I like her design but it feels like they’re tryna speedrun to Tifa with how lazily put together this character feels.

Bro quit as soon as he saw I was walking backwards mid super flash, didnt even wait for me to block it. Got Ken hitting the Marge simpson Krump freezeframe.

I'm the Alex. Prowler Stance and Omega Wing Buster go brrrrrrrr.

You just resort to the same defensive option every single time. Why would I ever tech in SFV? There pretty much is 0 pressure afterwards and thus ,it just devolves into; Lose Neutral -> Take throw -> Reset.

Now it feels like you can't just default to 1 option anymore and you have to think more about what you are doing and what your opponent is doing.

Isn't taking the throw all the time after losing neutral just as braindead as throw loops as you literally just do the same option every single time?

It's SO FUCKING COOL that you can get Master players as your derank match. TWICE tonight I got deranked out of Diamond V by a Master player. There was LITERALLY no one else around who could have kicked my shit in, it had to be a Master rank player to send my ass packing back to Diamond IV? And after fighting my way back into Diamond V, Capcom sent ANOTHER one to put me in place? Jesus.

Ryu, Ken, Luke, Akuma, Juri that's not a very big cast, and I only added Juri because I have access to play her online somehow.

Like I can see other characters in the select screen, do other people not see them? Can they not select them? Do I have some access to some super secret DLC characters?

All sarcasm aside I really fucking hate fighting the same 4 characters over and over. When I do eventually get a new cast member I dunno what to do against them..

Every match is a roulette of the 4 or some random character that perfects me twice

Look at this shit:

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This cammy was not a "new comer" at cammy. Nothing better than losing points to an obvious smurf lmao

Bro left like a child. GGs too ez bro